Flattery Quotes - Page 6

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.